Well done, Matthijs, well done.
If you don’t get it, here’s the original tune.
Excellent explanation of SOPA and PIPA by Salman Khan (founder of the Khan Academy).
To take action now, visit americancensorship.org and FightForTheFuture.org. These sites make it incredibly easy for you to email Congress. You can also just as easily send a fax through HelloFax.
Mogees - Gesture recognition with contact-microphones (by bruno zamborlin)
Read more about this awesome project on Bruno’s site.
Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)
What if a little site you love doesn’t have a business model? Yell at the developers! Explain that you are tired of good projects folding and are willing to pay cash American dollar to prevent that from happening. It doesn’t take prohibitive per-user revenue to put a project in the black. It just requires a number greater than zero.
So, today I recorded a future episode of the podcast about this very theme (before I saw this post). I’m a happy paying user of Pinboard, one that even pays the extra money for the archiving feature. Not only do I believe this idea to be true but, as I announce in that upcoming show, I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is by sending, anonymously, cash to a service I use and love daily that has no outward discernible business model.
Here is my idea:
What if, 1% of the users of a particular free service of 36 million clients and growing, were to decide to drop $10.00 cash every month into an envelope and mail it to said service? What if that envelope had no return address? Perhaps there was an note inside that begged them to create a model to let us pay them to use the service. To make sure the service continued on once the bubble inevitably bursts and the VC’s take their payout and fly to the Grand Caymans.
My guess is that such a service would have to keep the money. Perhaps they would go through a couple of months of having their offices flooded with 300,000+ ten dollar bills. This might get to be a hassle so, perhaps, maybe, they finally get the hint and have a few million dollars of starting cash to launch a way for us to pay directly for this thing we use and love.
Crazy, right? Yep.
So, here is the address I’m sending my unmarked cash with the note in the envelope with no return address.
Tumblr, Inc., 35 East 21st Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY, 10010
I welcome those that care as much as I do to do the same.
Update: Forgot to mention, and I never ask this… Please reblog the shit out of this one.
Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas uses a single biro pen to sketch these amazing pieces of art.
¡Increíble!
Hey, look! Congressional staffers turn out to be really good at predicting the behavior of stocks that their bosses legislate. Outside Capitol Hill, we might call that “insider trading.” Except US insider trading laws don’t apply to Congress.
Angry yet?
Occupy Congress!
Heinz Maier starting shooting less than a year ago, yet he’s already mastered the art of water drop photography. Check out his Splashes set on Flickr for more oohs and aahs.
Quicksilver Roars
It’s on the prowl
A new Lion-friendly version of QS boasting more than 40 additions, fixes and changes.
It’s been a relatively long time coming (4 months – a catching of breath compared to the semi-conscious release cycle of QS pre–ß59), but it’s here – an officially Lion–compatible version of Quicksilver.
Lots of good stuff in the latest build.
Tubalr
Tubalr is a beautifully-designed, minimal website by Cody Stewart that lets you search for and listen to music on YouTube without all the clutter.
How to add someone else’s iPhone to your AT&T account
I cannot believe how hard it was to find this information online. I searched for all kinds of phrases and keywords on Google and AT&T’s forums, but couldn’t find the answer to my specific question. If you’re in the same boat, hopefully this post will save you much frustration.
Joanna and I both had our own iPhone 4S’s in separate AT&T accounts. I wanted to add her iPhone as a second line on my account, and then put them both in a FamilyTalk plan. After a quick trip to the local AT&T store this morning, we learned that Joanna first had to initiate a Transfer of Ownership. The AT&T representative told us that could only be done over the phone, but I knew better.
Once back home, we logged on to Joanna’s AT&T account, and all she had to do was go to the “Wireless” tab and then click on “Transfer Account Ownership” under “Account Changes”. After entering my name and email address, I got an email asking me to confirm the transfer. From that point, I just followed the self-explanatory instructions on the website, and now we’re all set.
By doing all of this online, we saved $18, which is what AT&T charges for performing the transfer of ownership over the phone.
